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Composers and their Songs, 1400–1521

David Fallows

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English
Routledge
28 September 2010
This second selection of essays by David Fallows draws the focus towards individual composers of the 'long' fifteenth century and what we can learn about their songs. In twenty-one essays on the secular works of composers from Ciconia and Oswald von Wolkenstein via Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys and Regis to Josquin, Henry VIII and Petrus Alamire, one repeated theme is how a consideration of the songs can help the way to a broader understanding of a composer's output. Since there are more song sources and more individual pieces now available for study,

there are more handles for dating, for geographical location and for social alignment. Another theme concerns the various different ways in which particular songs have their impact on the next generations. Yet another concerns the authorshop of poems that were set to music by Binchois and Ciconia in particular. A group of essays on Josquin were parerga to the author's edition of his four-voice secular music for the New Josquin Edition (2005) and to his monograph on the composer (2009).

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 174mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781409406617
ISBN 10:   140940661X
Series:   Variorum Collected Studies
Pages:   348
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Adult education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Fallows is Professor of Musicology at the University of Manchester, UK

Reviews for Composers and their Songs, 1400–1521

'There are so many significant (and readable) articles here that it is difficult to know which should be singled out.' Early Music Review


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